When I look at the landscape of our culture, it becomes easy to get into a negative headspace. The negativity that you see on Twitter, Facebook or whatever your poison of choice is is always so real yet so artificial. You see love for things being hated and hate for things that should be loved. You see social politics and devastating news and politicians lying and people screaming, and you’re just supposed to…live with it. And you can do that in one of two ways: you can be peaceful about it and let it go, or you can make peace against it by fighting the good fight.
You must hear “the message”, good or bad, and it must be shoved down your throat. So what is left to do?
This is a question that, frankly, has plagued me for the last couple of weeks. It’s kept me from writing, being creative, and in some ways kept me from being rational. I know for a fact that I am not the only person who feels this way and when you get sucked into the social media vortex you are inherently going to come across this aforementioned negativity. It’s a funny thing because you can just…close the app or turn off the computer but how many times do we actually choose to do this? This is where video games have always shined for me because it is a great reprieve from all of that. It is a way to shut your brain off from the unrealistic manner this culture continues to portray itself. Video games have always been a way to block all of that out and separate myself from it all but late it seems that is no longer an option.
Lately everything feels different.
In the “Trending” tabs on Twitter and the in gaming news industry I am being overrun with news of Concord and Dustborn making controversial waves because of their far-left way of handling even the rockiest of criticism. These developers are lashing out against every day people and blaming them with their own signature-branded ‘not hate speech’ with a slew of insults and dehumanization. Yet, no one bats an eye. The left can do it. The gender ideology groups can do it. They can say whatever they want without repercussion and they know someone else will come clean up their mess. In the case of Concord, that is exactly what happened. Another confused “they/them” developer shot off at the mouth to those giving legitimately feedback about the game and why it was so awful and the development company as a whole had to make a statement. It seems like every game in the headlines is surrounded by some sort of controversy like this.
But God forbid we speak up. We lose jobs, we lose friends, we lose livelihoods.
No more. I am sick and tired of just sitting around just “being peaceful” and compliant with the garbage that I see being consistently rammed down the throats of our once great culture. It is time that we start making the peace by saying our piece. It is high time we start righting the ship that the left has so blatantly tried to highjack and twist to redefine language, normalcy, culture.
Make no mistake here; we should have never ‘baked that cake’. We should never have sat back and given each little piece of this cultural override that they have so desperately worked and succeeded at. They have successfully dictated what we are allowed to say and how we can say it.
It’s time that we begin speaking truth amongst this cultural and societal unrest. It’s time that we start making our peace, not someone else’s. It’s time that we start bringing this nation back to the roots of what made it great and brought long-lasting peace.
And by doing this, we can truly make peace rather than just sit back and “be peaceful” and let culture be steamrolled. It is not about us, it is about the next generation.
But it starts with us.
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